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Joint Modelling of Longitudinal-Time-To-Event with Categorical Variable Indicators of Latent Classes: Application to Tuberculosis Data

Adeboye Azeez1, Mutambayi Ruffin1, Ndege James1 and Qin Yongsong1
  • 1 University of Fort Hare, South Africa

Abstract

In many clinical and reliability research reports, the outcomes of basic interest is the time to a particular event happens in order to indicate the person’s “true” state of health or survival status. Different models have been used to analyze such data separately, but may be unsuitable if the longitudinal and health status measures are correlated. In this study, mixed effect and Cox model of latent class are jointly modelled for the correlation between the covariates, observed and unobserved health status variable with binary latent class indicators. A Bayesian approach for Maximum likelihood estimates is implemented using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques. The repeated and survival measures are independently assumed to be a Gaussian process for latent bivariate. The joint model is applied to TB cohort study for the HIV comorbidity effect on event time for Tuberculosis patients. R package is used for curvilinear repeated measures of latent class model and joint latent class models for both repeated measures and survival time event.

Journal of Mathematics and Statistics
Volume 16 No. 1, 2020, 90-103

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/jmssp.2020.90.103

Submitted On: 14 August 2018 Published On: 9 June 2020

How to Cite: Azeez, A., Ruffin, M., James, N. & Yongsong, Q. (2020). Joint Modelling of Longitudinal-Time-To-Event with Categorical Variable Indicators of Latent Classes: Application to Tuberculosis Data. Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, 16(1), 90-103. https://doi.org/10.3844/jmssp.2020.90.103

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Keywords

  • Bayesian
  • Binary
  • Model
  • Latent
  • Logistic